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Stallman isn't interested in practical/useful technology. I doubt the guy who has a panic attack at the thought of his browser executing javascript without his permission and uses an email client to download raw HTML has a good alternative to suggest. His main concern is shaming technology that isn't free and open source.

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I think Blender might be literally the only GPL-licensed GUI-based software that is any good.

inb4 5 levels of back-and-forth comments no-true-Scotsmanning of great GPL-licensed GUI-based software.

Inkscape is great.

Audacity is OK although buggy.

I've tried using inkscape on my mac a few years ago. It was a terrible experience.

Inkscape was internally rendering at half of my display's resolution, and then it was upscaled. It looked absolutely awful. And none of the keyboard shortcuts matched the platform defaults. Cmd+S for save? Nope. Cmd+Z for cut? Nope. Cmd+A for select all? Nothing worked the way I expected.

It felt like I was running a program from the 90s in an emulator.

What did blender look few years ago? :p

Try new Inkscape, and preferably on its home, Linux.

What about GIMP?

No. It’s not even the best open source image editor that runs on Linux.

In fact, GIMP is the project I’d point to for why the bazaar model doesn’t work for large complicated GUI applications.

What's better than GIMP for linux?

I mean... I'll invoke ImageMagick from the command line before using GIMP... it's that bad. just....bad. What's really sad is how little it's moved in the last, say, 15 years.

It's 2023 and it still doesn't even proper CMYK suppport... that's table stakes in this space.

It’s no good!

And Krita

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